A museum at night · six paintings · 1484 – 1893
Through the Frame
Watch the film, then walk the rooms yourself. Every painting opens up as you scroll.
The screening room
The film
Four and a half minutes, six paintings, one original score. The room takes its light from the screen.
Space play · ←→ 5 s · [] painting · M mute · F full screen
The galleries
Walk the six rooms
Each room holds one painting. Scroll slowly: the camera leans in to three details, then steps back so you can see the whole work and its wall label.
The salon
All six, together
Painted over four centuries and now spread across five cities. Choose one to watch its chapter of the film.
A rendered film, not a slideshow
Picture
The film was rendered frame by frame at 1280 × 720 and 24 frames per second from the six images you supplied. A virtual camera glides, pushes in and pulls back across each painting, and each work gets its own motion. Van Gogh's sky turns and his stars pulse. Hokusai's sea heaves, Munch's sunset ripples, Zephyr's roses drift and Vermeer's pearl catches the light.
Sound
The score was synthesized note by note for this film from soft pads, plucked strings and bell tones in a hall reverb. Each painting has its own key and texture: a lute for Botticelli, glass bells for Vermeer, koto-like runs and surf for Hokusai, swirling arpeggios for Van Gogh and a rising dissonance for Munch. A chime marks every caption and a low bloom marks every reveal.
The walk
The rooms on this page follow the same camera paths as the film, but your scrolling drives them. The light, petals, stars, spray and heat haze in each room are drawn live in your browser on top of the real painting.
Limits worth knowing. Nothing in the paintings was repainted or generated by AI. All the motion comes from moving and gently warping the real images. Only the six paintings supplied for this project appear in the film; the other works in the collection below link out to their full images. The page streams the film as eight chapter files that play in sync with one continuous score, so it starts quickly. The Scream image used here is 500 pixels wide, so its close-ups are softer than the others. Download the whole film (MP4, 4:26).
Thirty-two masterpieces
The six in the film, plus the rest of the canon we started from. Image links open the full-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons.
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